HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080142190
Bassin de Essequibo River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : East Bank Berbice, Rest of Region 9
Sub-basin area
1 211,6km²
Upstream area
1 211,6km²
Discharge
23,92m³/s
Mean elev.
144m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 767.1 km²63.6% of basin
- 439.2 km²36.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
32 distinct species · 41 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 923mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
630mm/an
PET
1 668mm
AET
1 276mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
80cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)